But the 50-year-old could not afford to pay the bills, being on benefits, and having booked in under a fake name she simply drove off without paying each time.

The Fox and Hounds, Exton

In total she avoided paying £1,868 during the four stays in Leicestershire and Rutland.

At the Michelin-listed Olive Branch in Clipsham, Rutland, in July she ran up a bill of £1,028 over two nights – including an extra cost for fresh flowers in her room - but fled without paying.

At Leicester Magistrates Court on Friday, having admitted two counts of fraud and two counts of making off without paying, she was given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay half of what she owned to each of the Leicestershire and Rutland businesses.

The court heard she had already been sentenced to a community order at Derby Magistrates Court for the two Derbyshire frauds and her appearance in Leicester related to stays at the Olive Branch, The Old Boot Garden Cottages in Long Whatton, near Loughborough, the Old White Hart in Lyddington, Rutland, and the Fox and Hounds in Exton, Rutland.

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After hearing that Munsey was co-operating with her community order received for the two Derbyshire offences, the bench of magistrates decided to punish her with a conditional discharge, while also ordering that £514 be withdrawn from her benefits over the coming months to partly repay the businesses affected.

Chairman of the bench Philip Woolnough told her: “Compensation is being asked for and we have decided you will pay half of the money outstanding.

“We give you a conditional discharge for two years.

"Any more trouble like this and you will be brought back and it will get very serious.